By John Burnet
If you happen to are contemplating this publication, i discovered it available to novices, since it used to be the *first* ebook at the Presocratics I learn, and that i acquired via it superb (with no previous Greek Philosophy instruction). now not as "strenuous" as Kirk & Raven which had prices imbedded in footnotes and so forth. making it extra of a "scholarly" factor (but additionally very good nonetheless).
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Here are the remains of what he said of him in the First Book: Anaximander of Miletos, son of Praxiades, a fellow-citizen and associate of Thales,53 said that the material cause and first element of things was the Infinite, he being the first to introduce this name of the material cause. —Phys. Op. fr. 2 (Dox. p. 476; R. P. 16). "—Hipp. Ref. i. 6 (R. P. 17 a). —Phys. Op. fr. 2 (R. P. 16). —Hipp. Ref. i. 6 . (R. P. 17 a). He did not ascribe the origin of things to any alteration in matter, but said that the oppositions in the substratum, which was a boundless body, were separated out —Simpl.
P. 352). —Ib. 25, 2 (Dox. p. 356). Anaximenes explained lightning like Anaximander, adding as an illustration what happens in the case of the sea, which flashes when divided by the oars—Ib. iii. 3, 2 (Dox. p. 368). —Aet. iii. 4, 1 (Dox. p. 370). The rainbow is produced when the beams of the sun fall on thick condensed air. Hence the anterior part of it seems red, being burnt by the sun's rays, while the other part is dark, owing to the predominance of moisture. —Schol,. 120 (Dox. p. 231). —Aet.
In its normal condition, when most evenly distributed, it is invisible, and it then corresponds to our "air"; it is the breath we inhale and the wind that blows. That is why he called it πνεῦµα. On the other hand, the old idea that mist or vapour is condensed air, is still accepted without question. It was Empedokles, we shall see, who first discovered that what we call air was a distinct corporeal substance, and not identical either with vapour or with empty space. 113 It was natural for Anaximenes to fix upon "air" as the primary substance; for, in the system of Anaximander, it occupied an intermediate place between the two fundamental opposites, the ring of flame and the cold, moist mass within it (§ 19).